top 50% hacker news stories for 2022-04-30

Internet Archive joins opposition to the “SMART Copyright Act”

http://blog.archive.org/2022/03/29/internet-archive-joins-opposition-to-the-smart-copyright-act/

3 years ago

616 upvotes – 171 comments

Noto emoji, a new black and white emoji font with less color

https://developers.googleblog.com/2022/04/what-is-black-and-white-and-read-all.html

3 years ago

549 upvotes – 144 comments

Nature has enormous emotional and cognitive benefits on people

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/14/1092822560/get-outside-enjoy-nature

3 years ago

459 upvotes – 294 comments

I've used all the notebooks

https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2022/04/30/ive-used-all-the-notebooks/

3 years ago

395 upvotes – 301 comments

Software Jailbreak for Any Kindle

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=346037

3 years ago

390 upvotes – 171 comments

Distributed Systems Shibboleths

https://jolynch.github.io/posts/distsys_shibboleths/

3 years ago

360 upvotes – 66 comments

Ultorg: A user interface for relational databases [video]

https://www.hytradboi.com/2022/ultorg-a-user-interface-for-relational-databases

3 years ago

355 upvotes – 67 comments

PyScript: Run Python in your HTML

https://pyscript.net/

3 years ago

317 upvotes – 65 comments

Achieving 5M persistent connections with Project Loom virtual threads

https://github.com/ebarlas/project-loom-c5m

3 years ago

309 upvotes – 145 comments

GnuCash

https://www.gnucash.org/

3 years ago

309 upvotes – 122 comments

Experience Report: 6 months of Go

https://typesanitizer.com/blog/go-experience-report.html

3 years ago

295 upvotes – 262 comments

Tell HN: People underestimate the effect of colleges in making lifelong friends

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31217939

3 years ago

265 upvotes – 193 comments

The appeal of using plain HTML pages (2019)

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/PlainHTMLAppeal

3 years ago

260 upvotes – 207 comments

Did the W-boson just “break the standard model”?

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2022/04/did-w-boson-just-break-standard-model.html

3 years ago

248 upvotes – 274 comments

UIs are streaming DAGs [video]

https://www.hytradboi.com/2022/uis-are-streaming-dags

3 years ago

235 upvotes – 72 comments

Getting hired after fifty

https://www.aarp.org/work/job-search/getting-hired-after-50/

3 years ago

235 upvotes – 276 comments

How to Corrupt an SQLite Database File

https://sqlite.org/howtocorrupt.html

3 years ago

225 upvotes – 139 comments

Nearly the hottest place on Earth, India swelters under intense heat wave

https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-forecasts/nearly-the-hottest-place-on-earth-india-swelters-amid-brutal-heat-wave/1179824

3 years ago

224 upvotes – 288 comments

Limitations of DALL-E

https://twitter.com/benjamin_hilton/status/1520032772072607747

3 years ago

213 upvotes – 107 comments

How do you power a rocket engine?

https://everydayastronaut.com/rocket-engine-cycles/

3 years ago

192 upvotes – 82 comments

At one company I worked at only one thing mattered: the yearly bonus

https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1520473199410135040

3 years ago

168 upvotes – 191 comments

Exposed by a Strava KOM: The Many Lives of a Fake Pro Cyclist

https://cyclingtips.com/2022/04/exposed-by-a-strava-kom-the-many-lives-of-a-fake-pro-cyclist/

3 years ago

162 upvotes – 97 comments

Fast analysis with DuckDB and Pyarrow

https://tech.gerardbentley.com/python/data/intermediate/2022/04/26/holy-duck.html

3 years ago

145 upvotes – 53 comments

Privacy Friendly Apps – improved privacy protection on the smartphone

https://secuso.aifb.kit.edu/english/105.php

3 years ago

142 upvotes – 52 comments

Zaplib post-mortem

https://zaplib.com/docs/blog_post_mortem.html

3 years ago

141 upvotes – 27 comments

Workers discover ‘unprecedented’ Phoenician necropolis in southern Spain

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/26/unprecedented-phoenician-necropolis-osuna-spain

3 years ago

138 upvotes – 56 comments

Best practices for optimizing Lambda functions

https://cloudash.dev/blog/best-practices-for-optimizing-lambda-functions

3 years ago

133 upvotes – 25 comments

What was wrong with SML?

https://blog.plover.com/prog/haskell/sml-defects.html

3 years ago

127 upvotes – 81 comments

Principles of Distributed Computing (2016)

https://disco.ethz.ch/courses/podc_allstars/

3 years ago

126 upvotes – 5 comments

Personal Knowledge Management Is Bullshit

https://www.otherlife.co/pkm/

3 years ago

124 upvotes – 98 comments

The Most Shameful RPG Dice (2009)

https://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/04/the_10_most_shameful_rpg_dice.php

3 years ago

122 upvotes – 104 comments

ClojureRS – Clojure interpreter implemented in Rust

https://github.com/clojure-rs/ClojureRS

3 years ago

122 upvotes – 41 comments

Top navy admiral wants rust-free ships

https://gcaptain.com/rusting-fleet-top-us-navy-admiral-cno-rust/

3 years ago

117 upvotes – 186 comments

What I wish I knew when learning OCaml (2018)

https://baturin.org/docs/ocaml-faq/

3 years ago

117 upvotes – 86 comments

Ask HN: How can I learn macroeconomics properly?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31219253

3 years ago

111 upvotes – 132 comments

Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation (2021)

http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/book/

3 years ago

108 upvotes – 18 comments

Ask HN: Beyond AWS/Azure/GCP, what cloud providers should I know more about?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31218268

3 years ago

106 upvotes – 104 comments

The PalmOS powered wristwatch from Fossil

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-palmos-powered-wristwatch-from

3 years ago

104 upvotes – 75 comments

ZX Spectrum: Q&A with some of the folks who worked on legendary PC

https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/30/zx_at_40/

3 years ago

103 upvotes – 92 comments

Epic is asking a court to stop Google from yanking Bandcamp off the Play Store

https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/29/23048059/epic-games-google-bandcamp-play-store

3 years ago

103 upvotes – 124 comments

A Rust match made in hell

https://fasterthanli.me/articles/a-rust-match-made-in-hell

3 years ago

103 upvotes – 51 comments

Gosniff: A TUI-Based Tcpdump

https://github.com/c-grimshaw/gosniff

3 years ago

102 upvotes – 21 comments

Why Innovation Prizes Fail

https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/why-innovation-prizes-fail/

3 years ago

98 upvotes – 48 comments

Tobii Pro Glasses 3

https://www.tobiipro.com/product-listing/tobii-pro-glasses-3/

3 years ago

94 upvotes – 64 comments

Underwater power cables make lobsters larvae bad swimmers

https://www.hw.ac.uk/news/articles/2022/underwater-power-cables-make-lobsters-bad.htm

3 years ago

93 upvotes – 55 comments

Software Development, the Pareto Principle, and the 80% Solution

https://projectricochet.com/blog/software-development-pareto-principle-and-80-solution

3 years ago

92 upvotes – 40 comments

The confounding politics of camping in America

https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-confounding-politics-of-camping-in-america

3 years ago

83 upvotes – 111 comments

Prioritization as a Superpower

https://nbt.substack.com/p/prioritization-as-a-superpower

3 years ago

82 upvotes – 32 comments

Paris suspends electric bus fleet after two fires

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2022/04/29/paris-suspends-electric-bus-fleet-after-two-fires_5981956_7.html

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 87 comments

EU Joins Mastodon Social Network, Sets Up Its Own Server

https://www.pcmag.com/news/eu-joins-mastodon-social-network-sets-up-its-own-server

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 20 comments

The Economics of Seinfeld (2010)

http://yadayadayadaecon.com/

3 years ago

79 upvotes – 28 comments

Rpilocator – find in stock Raspberry Pi

https://rpilocator.com/

3 years ago

78 upvotes – 32 comments

Ask HN: What's on your learning list?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31214599

3 years ago

73 upvotes – 110 comments

Inspired by prehistoric creatures, researchers make record-setting lenses

https://phys.org/news/2022-04-prehistoric-creatures-record-setting-lenses.html

3 years ago

72 upvotes – 4 comments
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